T&M Industry to have a Defining Decade globally and in India

T&M Industry through its Products and Services will see definitive changes and will get new dimensions while in quest to serve the other industries with which it interacts. These changes will be mutually beneficial, and will be universal in nature.

Let us touch base with hardware architecture. Increasingly the hardware design is getting divided in two camps - one who prefer making new instruments simple, very portable, easy to use and compact unit. These portables are generally assembled mass scale in North Asian and East European countries to leverage low cost components and competitive manpower. The other camp is for designing new "Systemic" architecture and "Solution Capability". The divide between Value and Volume will widen not narrow!
The Software test architecture likewise see new standards getting into action and this time the standards will be decided by needs of Defense and Telecom fusion with appropriate use of web technologies thrown in. So the solution will have three elements Hardware, Software and Web Interfaces on I/O communications. Other trends like Interoperability, Standardization, Conformity, and cost saving will be visible depending upon how we are able to expand all kinds of T&M services. Basically we will move to the regime of unified "Test & Management". Besides Defense and Telecom, the trends in Semiconductors and Power will impact the T&M industry in a big way. The pressure on yield and reaching limits on "Moore Law", Smart Grid applications, Cloud Computing and Virtualization and "Green Technologies" will influence new requirements on Test interfaces. Manufacturing Industry as we know today will be changed as the divide between selling price and manufacturing cost widens.

Services, more particularly T&M services, will become even more important as the component of Intellectual Property (IP) to Create (read Design) and Market will be dominating the scene!

Wishing a happy 2010 and Welcome to a Defining Decade!!